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A monograph of the pheasants

by: Beebe, William, 1877-1962; Grönvold, Henrik, 1858-1940, ill; Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953, ill; Lodge, George Edward, ill; Thorburn, Archibald, 1860-1935, ill; Herster, H. D., former owner. DSI; New York Zoological Society; Stanford's Geographical Estabt., engraver

Publication date: 1918

Topics: Pheasants

Publisher: London, England : Published under the auspices of the New York Zoological Society by Witherby & Co.

Collection: biodiversity

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: English

Volume: v.2 (1921)

Item Size: 586.2M

statement of responsibility: by William Beebe ... ; in four volumes

Issued later in abridged form with title: Pheasants, their lives and homes, 1926

Vols. 2-4 published under the auspices of the New York Zoological Society by H.F. & G. Witherby

Title in red and black

Plates have guard sheets with descriptive letterpress

Plates by: G.E. Lodge; H. Grönvold; A. Thorburn; C.R. Knight (and others); maps signed: Stanford's Geographical Establishment

Six hundred copies printed

action: extracted picklist 20081216 BHLEX

Includes bibliographical references and index

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SCNHRB (formerly SCAIRB) has copy no. 212 of the limited ed

SCNHRB (formerly BIRDRB) has copy no. 180 of the limited ed

BIRDRB copy has signature stamp on front free endpaper: H.D. Herster

BIRDRB copy has stamp: Smithsonian Institution National Museum, Jun. 20, 1942; accession nos. 319477-319480

BIRDRB copy is in publisher's red cloth binding; gilt-lettered spine and front cover; brown endpapers; top edge gilt